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Your absolutely right in take the extra care of presentation in relation to your working practices and respect of the customers home, because it is there home after all. Also this practice breeds conference in the customer to sing your praises. It more too do with the next potential customer driving by and not seeing a building site, but a tradesmen working with pride. I always put tarpaulins down everywhere especially dedicated ones for sand deliveries. Easy to clean site on completion, looks impressive to new potential customers and and the end of a working day you can pull the tarpaulins over the sand stopping that bloody cooking fat from next door sh#*ing in your sand. Love your working and appreciate you sharing it with us, top flight.
Yes thank you I've always said to treat the customers' property how you would expect your own property to be treated I always leave it cleaner than when I arrived
Most of my house is fine but I am looking at breaking out and patching the broken areas and replacing some buttered on cement mortar with the proper lime mortar. Would you say its fine to just do patches to fix up rather than redoing a whole wall?
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd Most of the house is all original lime, someone has bodged patches with cement mortar which I am gonna replace back to lime. The rest are just small gaps where the original lime has blown so gonna take it back and repoint the areas that need it, hopefully will be ok. Will do some tests to try and get near to the same colour mortar. Cheers for your videos, very informative.
@RockyJRT no problem get the colour as best you can when it's wet It will go lighter till it cures so don't panick if it's a different colour in the morning Try to mist it over and keep it damp for a few days
My scaffolding company gives me a price I give that to the client let them see if they can beat the price. If not my client pays my scaffolding company direct
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd Neither at the moment. I used to work for a bricklaying company years ago and we did a fair few repointing jobs on old barns, Victorian terraced houses etc (although we didn’t know to use lime mortars back then). I’ve been doing a lot of restoration work on my own property using quicklime and can see the benefits over cement and thought about doing it for a living myself. (Although I probably won’t at this stage!) I was just curious about the level of organisation you as the contractor were responsible for.
Don't fancy doing it yourself? Why not ask GMT Pointing Specialists for a free survey and quote. And to be put on my waiting list We offer external pointing, repointing, brickwork repair, & water sealing treatments serving throughout North Wales, Cheshire and Wirral areas. Call Glenn on 07990 902562 or leave your details on our website for a call back. www.gmtpointingspecialistsltd.co.uk
Your absolutely right in take the extra care of presentation in relation to your working practices and respect of the customers home, because it is there home after all. Also this practice breeds conference in the customer to sing your praises. It more too do with the next potential customer driving by and not seeing a building site, but a tradesmen working with pride. I always put tarpaulins down everywhere especially dedicated ones for sand deliveries. Easy to clean site on completion, looks impressive to new potential customers and and the end of a working day you can pull the tarpaulins over the sand stopping that bloody cooking fat from next door sh#*ing in your sand. Love your working and appreciate you sharing it with us, top flight.
Yes thank you
I've always said to treat the customers' property how you would expect your own property to be treated
I always leave it cleaner than when I arrived
I've watched all your videos mate and you are a professional..a credit to the trade
I really appreciate you saying that. Thank you If I can be of any help, just ask
Amazing work again Glen,thanks again for the advice about my I'll informed customer
No problem mate did you get sorted in the end
@GMTpointingspecialistsltd not yet but, will be back to see the customer next week,thanks again
@samcarter1541 OK if i can be of any further assistance, just call me
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd OK will do thanks again
Most of my house is fine but I am looking at breaking out and patching the broken areas and replacing some buttered on cement mortar with the proper lime mortar. Would you say its fine to just do patches to fix up rather than redoing a whole wall?
Just do what you can
It won't match but if your happy with only doing that
But if its cement on a lime built building I'd remove it
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd Most of the house is all original lime, someone has bodged patches with cement mortar which I am gonna replace back to lime. The rest are just small gaps where the original lime has blown so gonna take it back and repoint the areas that need it, hopefully will be ok. Will do some tests to try and get near to the same colour mortar. Cheers for your videos, very informative.
@RockyJRT no problem get the colour as best you can when it's wet
It will go lighter till it cures so don't panick if it's a different colour in the morning
Try to mist it over and keep it damp for a few days
Do you arrange the scaffolding or does the client deal with them separately?
My scaffolding company gives me a price
I give that to the client let them see if they can beat the price. If not my client pays my scaffolding company direct
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd Thanks
Are you the client or the tradesman
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd Neither at the moment. I used to work for a bricklaying company years ago and we did a fair few repointing jobs on old barns, Victorian terraced houses etc (although we didn’t know to use lime mortars back then). I’ve been doing a lot of restoration work on my own property using quicklime and can see the benefits over cement and thought about doing it for a living myself. (Although I probably won’t at this stage!) I was just curious about the level of organisation you as the contractor were responsible for.
@@Kate_Kestrel I find it best to speak to the scaffolding as I light tall lifts and double inside boards